Gilly Raanan
6 statements across 1 episodes · 4 bullish · 1 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Mar 11, 2026 by Gilly Raanan · across every show →
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Mar 11, 2026 positive
Raanan: Cyberstarts' 2018 fund turned $50M into nearly $2B in three years
“I invested in nine teams out of a fund of fifty million dollars in 2018. You know, a few million dollars each company. And then three years later, the world found out that those nine teams are valued over twenty five billion dollars, turning those fifty millio…”
Mar 11, 2026 positive
Raanan: Seed-stage product ideas and technology are noise compared to founder quality
“The idea and the technology at this stage, at the seed stage, is, is noise. It's part of the entropy. It's actually not helping me make the right decision. The best decision is to just watch the individual and decide if that's the individual you want to partne…”
Mar 11, 2026 negative
Mar 11, 2026 neutral
Raanan: True company importance is measured by practitioner dependence, not ARR
“An important company is not necessarily measured by revenues or ARR or valuation. It's about, it's measured by how much the market, how much practitioners depend on you. Do they consider you as a vendor, one of their trusted partners? And there are many compan…”
Mar 11, 2026 positive
Mar 11, 2026 bullish
Raanan: Wiz raised a $20M seed syndicate at a $66M post-money valuation
“The company I was the seed investor for that company together with Doug Leone from Sequoia and Sherdul Shah from Index Ventures. And together we created a syndicate of twenty million dollars that Value the company at around, I think the number was sixty six mi…”